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Where does the time go? It flies by when you are busy bees and that is what we are.

January brought practice at school and travel ball. It brought driving for Taylor and he likes to keep the roads hot!!

February brought games starting for school and travel. Logan is the manager for the school team and is required to help out at home games. He’s on a new baseball team and it’s less travel and hotel stays. We’ve enjoyed the less hectic schedule and being back with local people, but miss our elite family bunches! February also brought Logan’s first Sadies Hawkins dance! What fun! It even brought a few “dates” for Taylor.

March brought more of the same. Spring break came and went with no excitement this year.

April is more ball and more driving. It’s that time of year for us, we don’t have much more to talk about.

What a blessed day! What an exciting and scary day! I vividly remember sitting in the hospital with my tiny, 1 year old Taylor and fearing the furure. The future is here and Taylor is no longer a tiny 1 year old who is sick, he is now a happy, healthy 15 year old! Our God is so good!! Praise him!!!

We’ve been busy bees since my last post. We had a fabulous Christmas. The boys are getting big and that gets hard. Taylor got jeep stuff and Logan got hunting stuff. No toys here! That’s kinda sad!

We went to Gatlinburg for a few days. We didn’t find any cold weather there either. It was in the 70’s! We still had a great few days. On the way home we learned that all the torential rain we have had lately made our retaining wall fall. What a mess!!! We are well on our way to getting that cleaned up and redone. It’s a huge inconvenience, but we’ve been through much worse!!

We spent a few days at home. The boys hunted…..well, Logan did. Taylor went a few times, but he’s in full teenage mode and would rather sleep!!! Logan got a deer!!! He was very excited!

Me, Guh, nana and Mary too a girls trip to Nashville. We had a blast! We went to the opry at the Ryman and it was so fun.

Once home, it was time to get back into routine. That wasn’t easy!!!! Taylor is on the block system which is less classes for longer times each semester and they change each semester. So, it was like the first day for him. He got a whole new schedule. He doesn’t like this one as much as last semester, but he likes it. He really enjoyed his art class, so he misses that.

Logan did a baseball camp in auburn. He had a great time!!! Jim and I sat in the cold and watched. It was fun. The ride home was good until a huge dog ran out in front of me. Uuugh!!!!! Killed the dog and did some damage to the car. Nothing major!!! Again, headache, frustrating, but oh well. We were not hurt!

Well, the main point of this post is to say Happy birthday Taylor!!!!!!!

Busy, busy, busy!! That’s what we have been!! Before I get started, I just want to look at the numbers above. 4628!!!! Amazing! I remember thinking the 100 days of isolation would never end, we’d never go back into public, would we ever get to 2 week check ups???? Slowly, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 2 month, 4 months, 6 months and now yearly. Time flies when your having fun!!!! God has been so very good to us!

As for the last few months…….

Logan took fall off with baseball. It was a nice break and we all got some rest and caught up on things around the house.

Logan was the manager of the football team which he loved. He stayed after school daily and attended all games.

Taylor is loving high school. The block system allows for fewer classes per semester which is easier for him. He is making great grades and has the best case manager ever!!! Taylor’s braces came off too!!!

The boys did the camp SAM 5k.

Homecoming was, umm, fun. Lots of rolling!!! Rolling is a status symbol here. You don’t want to get caught, but you want your house rolled! Taylor participated in the homecoming parade.

We did our usual pumpkin patch fun. Taylor has outgrown it and didn’t have the best time, but he did enjoy picking the biggest pumpkin in the patch!

Taylor celebrated the 13th anniversary of being diagnosed. Yes, celebrated! He is cancer free by Gods grace and many people have been placed in our lives because of cancer.

Taylor and Jim went to Wisconsin on a bear hunt. They had an absolute blast and he got a bear! While they were gone, Logan, me and some friends went to Atlanta for some fun.

We went to Kentucky for a wedding. We had some fun site seeing along the way.

The guys have been hunting every free minute. Like, really, they spent the entire thanksgiving week hunting. Taylor and Jim have both gotten deer.

That’s about it for now. Baseball practice has started back. Logan will be manager of the baseball team, so that will soon be in full swing. Taylor is gearing up to be 15!!!! He is so exited. I have mixed emotions!! At one point I wasn’t sure he’d turn 2 much less 15, so I’m thrilled. However, the idiots on the road scare me!!!

Everyone have a fabulous holiday season!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Taylor finished therapy inpatient wise and continues to do exercises at home. He still has pain, but mostly if he has been very active. I think it’s just something he will deal with through puberty.

Last I wrote it was early March. We went to, of course, Disney for spring break. Then we came home just in time for Easter. Logan hurt his ankle the Saturday after Disney. He ended up in a boot for a bit. It was just a sprain, but he is so bad to turn that ankle that it had just gotten worse and worse.

April brought lots of baseball and travel. Fun as always!!!
May brought more baseball. Brought getting both boys ready to move to new schools. Logan was chosen to be in all honors classes. We are very proud of him, but he will have to work hard!

June was a little bit restful since school was out, but not really!! Logan had sibling camp. Taylor had another round of neuropsych testing. He also had his annual oncology visit which was great!!!! We went to the beach where elite came in 3rd out of 33 in the World Series.

July brought teen camp for Taylor. Logan, Jim and paw paw took a trip to see several mlb games and landmarks along the way. Guh and I took Taylor to Disney again. Then gammaw, ghen ghen, Taylor and I met the boys in Indiana. There the boys came in 2nd place.

We got home at 7:30am and started registering kids for school!!! Logan will be in 6th at the middle school and Taylor will be in 9th at the high school.

August brought school! Poo!!! Summer was way to short and it’s way to hot to be in school! Taylor is loving high school. He has a church friend, one of my old teachers, one of Jims old coaches, the ex Ed dept. is fabulous!!!!!! Logan is the football manager and loving it. He is much more social than taylor so this middle school thing is more his speed!

There is much of the same going on here. Taylor did 6 weeks of physical therapy on his knees, but was still in pain. Back to the dr we went. This time he got another exam and it was discovered that he walks on the insides of his feet and his knee cap can be pushed nearly to the side of his leg. Nothing gets my stomach, but that was really gross!!!! So, heel supports were put in shoes to straighten his legs up, new braces that are more supportive put on knees and more PT. If this doesn’t work then it’s surgery!!!! Please be in prayer that no surgery is needed!

He hasn’t complained like he was, so I don’t know if it’s working or he’s getting used to it. They did say a lot of it will be there until puberty ends regardless of surgery. Boo!!

We’ve had some interesting snowy/icey days lately. We’ve been delayed, dismissed early or out 2-3 times a week for several weeks. The kids didn’t mind!

Taylor will soon go on a turkey hint with the specialty sports alliance. He is so excited! Baseball is here, so it’s about to get busy!! We’ve got new places on the schedule this year, so it should be fun.

That’s about it for now…please pray for Taylor to remain cancer free. Pray for those in remission to stay that way. Pray? for those still in the battle.